CMS RATE OF ADOPTION

Leaders
• Drupal
• Joomla!
• WordPress
Movers
• Alfresco
• DotNetNuke
• MODx
Laggards
• CMSMadeSimple
• Jahia
• phpWebSite


The Leaders in the rate of adoption metric provide no real surprises to the readers of the 2009
report. Again this year, the most popular systems are Drupal, Joomla! and WordPress. These
popular PHP-based systems garner a substantial amount of market share. Part of their success is
no doubt due to their reliance on the populist LAMP stack, part of it is a by-product of their
ubiquity. In the sections that follow, we look at the other, often more subtle, factors.
The surprises here are the Movers category. Neither Alfresco nor DotNetNuke were part of the
2008 Report, yet here they clearly demonstrate that they are market players with respectable
rates of adoption.
In the Laggards we find a mix of systems: The PHP-based e107, Java-based Jahia and the .NETbased
Umbraco. Of the three, only e107 participated in the 2008 survey. In that report, we
labeled e107 a Mover, due largely to the system’s strength in the downloads category. In
contrast, the system appeared much weaker relative to the other members of the 2009 group.